midmesg

Micro dmesg is a lighterweight alternative to dmesg.

Dependencies

• midmesg should work perfectly fine on both musl libc and glibc.
• midmesg requires header files for your Linux kernel.

Your Linux distribution should bundle them in a package named linux-headers or something similar to that.

Installation

After you've cloned the Git repository, use these commands to compile and install midmesg.

make
doas make install

To uninstall midmesg, use doas make uninstall.

Tasks

• find some way to retain logs

According to the klogctl(3) man page:

Bytes read from the log disappear from the log buffer:

the information can be read only once.

• use a built-in pager instead of printing logs to the terminal or hoping that less exists on the system